Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · San Antonio, TX MSA · October 2026
Every advertised-pay, job-posting and industry figure in this briefing comes from WageScape's own database of active job postings. The sources below back the external facts cited in the written analysis.
Sources cited in this report
Headline
Austin added 7,500 jobs while San Antonio lost 1,600 employed workers
Hoodline — Metro comparison, Sept 25 2026
Key Indicators
Texas statewide unemployment held near 4.0-4.6% with 1.1% annual job growth
Texas Workforce Commission — State labor market release, Sept 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Sector growth rates: mining/construction 9.6%, professional/business services 8.9%, leisure/hospitality 4.0%
San Antonio Report — Metro sector employment growth data
Information sector down 6.6-7.7%, government down 2.7-3.1% year-over-year
San Antonio Express-News via Hoodline — Metro sector contraction figures
Local Economic Conditions
San Antonio-New Braunfels lost 1,600 employed workers year-over-year through August
Hoodline — Metro employment comparison citing BLS data, Sept 25 2026
San Antonio wages grew 1.3% year-over-year in June vs Texas 2.9% and U.S. 3.5%
San Antonio Express-News via Hoodline — Metro wage growth comparison
How the numbers are calculated
- Advertised pay is the median of the pay ranges employers publish in active job postings in this metro. It is not survey or payroll data.
- Percent changes compare the latest six full months with the six months before that, for the same metro and sector.
- Sectors group postings by the employer's industry (NAICS) classification into ten sectors. Where a metro has too few postings in a sector, the state figure is used instead.
- Role pay trends use the same comparison windows. "Stable" means a change of less than 3%; "moderate" 3–10%; "significant" more than 10%.
Official data for comparison